Manuscript on parchment, in several hands, containing the Usuard Martyrology, with many added marginal obituary notices of Beauvais Cathedral from the twelfth through the early fourteenth centuries
Description:
In Latin., Rubricated., Decoration: Rubricated. Four large ornamental initials in red penwork, including scrollwork, geometric knotwork and animal masks., Endleaves reused from other manuscripts and contain notes and pen trials. Last endleaf contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave., and Binding: white leather over beveled boards. Spine title in a later hand: Martyrolog. d'alia Obituarium...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., France, Beauvais., and Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Usuard, -876 or 877. and Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Martyrologies, and Necrologies
Minerva Press broadside detailing the unfortunate end of Louis XVI on the guillotine, January 21, 1793 in Paris. The broadside includes a woodcut illustration of a man lying face down waiting for the blade of the guillotine to drop; the decree of the French National Convention authorizing the execution of "Louis Capet;" descriptions of his execution and of the guillotine--"the modern beheading machine"--and a few anecdotes indicating "that for some time [the king] had been expecting his fate."
Description:
One of several variants; in this edition, the text of the second column begins with the words: "middle of the square, directly facing the gate of the garden of the Tuileries..." See also English short title catalogue, nos. T194096 and T039027., Caption title., Text printed in two columns; text and illustration within double-ruled black border., "Price three-pence.", "Where may be had an exact and authenticated copy of his will, price one-penny"--Lower margin., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed at the Minerva Office, for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, and sold wholesale at one guinea per hundred and And retail by every bookseller, stationer, &c. in England, Scotland and Ireland
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Politics and government, Foreign public opinion, British, and Public opinion
Autograph narrative, extensively illustrated by Mrs. Kenah, of two journeys in Europe taken by the Kenah couple with friends in 1821-24 and in 1827-29. On the first tour, accompanied by Walter Burrell, MP for Sussex, and "Mrs. Crutchley of Sunning Hill Park....and a Blenheim spaniel," the Kenahs traveled through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Bavaria; they were present in Naples for the 1822 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and spent time in Rome and Lucca as well. In the later tour, they visited the Low Countries, Germany, and Trieste. The text is clearly drawn from diaries kept by Mrs. Kenah during the tours, and contains her often humorous responses, as an "Inexperienced Traveller," to tourist sights, local customs and manners, "foreign" food, and travel difficulties, Mrs. Kenah describes herself as "a woman in quest of the Picturesque," and over 80 of her watercolors and pen and ink sketches are mounted in her travel album. Subjects include "Eruption of Vesuvius, October 22, 1822 as it appeared at midday;" several portraits of Lucchese, Swiss and German figures in local costume; a portrait of Tommaso Sgricci, the famous improvvisatore; a memorial Mass in Caudenberg; the "table d'hote" at the Baths of Ems; the Salon at the Palazzo Ricasoli in 1824; and a variety of "picturesque" landscapes, including a view of the Bay of Naples, of a canal in Venice, and of several castles and mountain scenes in Germany. Also included are several printed views of German scenes which have been hand-colored, and In addition, there are watercolors of English subjects at the end of the volume: cottage scenes, rural landscapes, "view of Box Hill," "Grimsthorpe, 1826," and "Dunkeld from Dr. Fisher's garden. Sept. 9 1826."
Description:
Spine title reads: "Journal. Vol. I.", Annotated on front endpaper: "Mary Leigh Best, 1878.", and Binding: Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lucca (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Vesuvius (Italy)
Ethnic costume, Grand tours (Education), Landscape drawing, Travelers' writings, English, Views, Women authors, Women travelers, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Eruption, 1822
Organ part, holograph, with blank staves for voices, signed by Gounod on cover and initialed by him on several pages. The cover is annotated in an unidentified hand: "Propriété de la paroisse de St. François-Xavier, maître de chapelle Joseph Franck".
Alternative Title:
Masses, A♭ major
Description:
The composer Charles Gounod was appointed maître de chapelle at the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères, Paris, in 1843., Jean-Hubert-Joseph Franck, violinist, composer, and organist; younger brother of César Franck; succeeded Gounod as organist at the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères., and Title from cover.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Franck, Jean-Hubert-Joseph, 1825-1891. and Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.
Opposite page 104. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 31.5 x 25.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 104 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Pubd. March 18th, 1774, by H. Bryer, London
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Snuff
Leaf 58. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A French hairdresser with fine coat and small-sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Monsieur le Frizuer
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering; see page 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., and For an earlier state, see no. 4673 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. May 21th [sic], 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, and Daggers & swords
Leaf 58. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A French hairdresser with fine coat and small-sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Monsieur le Frizuer
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering; see page 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 4673 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Second of three plates on leaf 58., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 15.4 x 10.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. May 21th [sic], 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, and Daggers & swords
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Above image: (14)., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters or Syringe; Politics, French.
Publisher:
Chez Deforêt & César, Libraires-Editeurs, 64, Rue Nve. des Petits-Champs and Imp. Talons
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Galliffet, Gaston de, 1830-1909
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Generals, Military decorations, Nuts, Basins (Containers)., and Politics and government
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
